An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.